Has anyone succeeded in mounting the SD Card built into the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Fedora?
It wants to use MTP for the USB connection and I have not found the right combination of software to correctly mount the tablet as a file system. The MTP mounted tablet causes RhythmBox to crash when it tries to connect to the tablet as a music player.
I have read some information about mtpfs. Does anyone know where this software can be found?
MTP == Media Transfer Protocol.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Steven F. LeBrun steven@lebruns.com wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in mounting the SD Card built into the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Fedora?
It wants to use MTP for the USB connection and I have not found the right combination of software to correctly mount the tablet as a file system. The MTP mounted tablet causes RhythmBox to crash when it tries to connect to the tablet as a music player.
I have read some information about mtpfs. Does anyone know where this software can be found?
MTP == Media Transfer Protocol.
Not sure it'll help, but in the case of you my Galaxy S2 smartphone, I simply switched the phone to mass-storage mode. (Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging) Once enabled, you can simply access the file-system on your device like any other USB mass-storage device. (Disk-on-key, HDD, etc)
- Gilboa
Not sure it'll help, but in the case of you my Galaxy S2 smartphone, I simply switched the phone to mass-storage mode. (Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging) Once enabled, you can simply access the file-system on your device like any other USB mass-storage device. (Disk-on-key, HDD, etc)
It is a problem we'll have to face soon however - even if the current Galaxy Tab can be switch to mass storage...
The Galaxy Nexus (and thus reference for the next generation of android phones/tablets) does not have a USB mass storage mode since it does not have an SD card to unmount to present to the system. Rather MTP is being used so that both the phone and the connected system can have simultaneous access to the internal filesystem.
Right now we cannot say if future Samsung/Motorola/HTC/etc phones based on ICS and the GN reference will follow a similar pattern or not....
The FUSE based mtpfs can be found here but with the caveat that it doesn't appear to have progress very far... and was just the first google result for it - not sure if there is a competing effort: http://code.google.com/p/mtpfs/
Relevant stuff about this situation can be found here: http://www.pcsmax.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-no-data-transfer-to-mac-and-linux...
James
The FUSE based mtpfs can be found here but with the caveat that it doesn't appear to have progress very far... and was just the first google result for it - not sure if there is a competing effort: http://code.google.com/p/mtpfs/
Further checking reveals this on the forums:
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:59 +0000, James Hogarth wrote:
Not sure it'll help, but in the case of you my Galaxy S2 smartphone, I simply switched the phone to mass-storage mode. (Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging) Once enabled, you can simply access the file-system on your device like any other USB mass-storage device. (Disk-on-key, HDD, etc)
It is a problem we'll have to face soon however - even if the current Galaxy Tab can be switch to mass storage...
The Galaxy Nexus (and thus reference for the next generation of android phones/tablets) does not have a USB mass storage mode since it does not have an SD card to unmount to present to the system. Rather MTP is being used so that both the phone and the connected system can have simultaneous access to the internal filesystem.
---- actually, I think your declaration that there won't be a USB mass storage mode in the next gen android phones/tablets is incorrect...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/21/ice-cream-sandwich-supports-usb-mass-stor...
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Right now we cannot say if future Samsung/Motorola/HTC/etc phones based on ICS and the GN reference will follow a similar pattern or not....
---- It will be there as evidenced by the Asus Transformer Prime
Craig
actually, I think your declaration that there won't be a USB mass storage mode in the next gen android phones/tablets is incorrect...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/21/ice-cream-sandwich-supports-usb-mass-stor...
I did say that it depends how close they keep to the 'reference' design or if they add sdcards themselves.... and mass storage from an ICS point of view is only relevant to unmountable SD media... Note that the Google engineer making the clarifications (which were already present in the article I referenced) makes it clear MTP only is an ICS thing for any device (such as the GN) which does not have external unmountable storage.
Anything declared as internal storage and not unmountable will only be usable via MTP (which is why the GN is MTP only) and so it remains of interest for some sane solution to be able to access the disk of any unmountable data volume of an ICS device...
Also anything that ends up having a reliance on access to the data at the same time as the connected host would require this too.
On 11/30/2011 08:59 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
Not sure it'll help, but in the case of you my Galaxy S2 smartphone, I simply switched the phone to mass-storage mode. (Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging) Once enabled, you can simply access the file-system on your device like any other USB mass-storage device. (Disk-on-key, HDD, etc)
It is a problem we'll have to face soon however - even if the current Galaxy Tab can be switch to mass storage...
The Galaxy Nexus (and thus reference for the next generation of android phones/tablets) does not have a USB mass storage mode since it does not have an SD card to unmount to present to the system. Rather MTP is being used so that both the phone and the connected system can have simultaneous access to the internal filesystem.
Right now we cannot say if future Samsung/Motorola/HTC/etc phones based on ICS and the GN reference will follow a similar pattern or not....
The FUSE based mtpfs can be found here but with the caveat that it doesn't appear to have progress very far... and was just the first google result for it - not sure if there is a competing effort: http://code.google.com/p/mtpfs/
Relevant stuff about this situation can be found here: http://www.pcsmax.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-no-data-transfer-to-mac-and-linux...
James
More information about accessing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 using MTP. I just bought a small MP3 player and connected it to my laptop via USB. It was treated the same as the Galaxy Tab 10.1, it crashed Rhythmbox. Before restarting Rhythmbox, I disconnected and reconnected the MP3 player. To my surprise, I was able to access its memory as a file system. Running mtp-detect or mtp-connect caused the connection to fail. I was able to transfer files to the MP3 player successfully so long as Rhythmbox was not running (and probably other programs that use libmtp).
After some success with the MP3 player, I tried connecting the Galaxy Tab 10.1 without Rhythmbox running. I was able to see some sort of file system. It was not the file system that I expected or see with apps like Astro. It was a flat file system with directories named 00000001 to 00000028 (counting in hex). All these directories are mostly empty though a few have files with the same numeric naming scheme. Nautilus is stating that "These files are on a digital audio player" and wants to open them with Rhythmbox.
It appears that while the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is using MTP, it is not quite following the specification that the mtp tools are expecting. The mtp tools can detect that it is a Galaxy Tab 10.1 connected but when it attempts to connect the connection is refused.
-- Steven F. LeBrun
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